The Cancer new moon flows through in just a few hours (around 7pm July 5th). This moon is sitting with Venus and squaring the nodes still traveling through Aries & Libra.
Cancer is ruled by the moon, forever tied to its predictable rhythm and cycles repeating each month. What can feel like a spontaneous outburst of emotion or pleasant surprise of calm waters is only part of the natural ebb and flow of being so connected with the moon. If we are paying attention at all to the story of our lives there is always some sort of cycle at play we might track through our own intuitive knowing.
This moon wants us to remember what it means to Care. To be Care-full and remember the pleasure and sweetness that arises when we treat ourselves and others with grace and softness. Part of this means embracing our tears and overflow as a natural way we stabilize, cleanse, and understand more deeply our truth in any given moment.
The moon in astrology holds many different archetypal meanings. From symbolizing our mother or prominent nurturing figures in our early childhood, to representing our inner child, the karma we come into this life with to work through, ancestral inheritances which are present within the body, our physical body in general, how we like to be nurtured, how we nurture others, our instinctual needs, what we are comfortable with, patterns which begin in childhood, the things we do when we are not thinking consciously about it.
Cancer as a sign holds memory in the emotional body, all the remnants of a life lived through Feeling from sorrow to ecstasy, held tight and safe inside the crab shell ready to be re-experienced in full at any given moment. There is a need for surrender with Cancer—similar to all the water signs—where we are asked to learn when to release, when to trust, and when to believe in what we know intuitively/instinctually. And for Cancer specifically it has a lot to do with moving in sync with what is kind, what is supportive of life, and what brings comfort.
This is quite a soft new moon sitting in the space between the nodes which have had us reckoning over this last year with what it means to be fully ourselves and in relationship at the same time. Are these actually at odds? Maybe that is what this new moon is asking us to feel into. If we are care-full, do we need to worry so much about either of these? When we are aligned in how we nurture life, our environment, the people around us, our greater communities, our global neighbors, doesn’t this also imply care of self? When did we become so fixated on separating how we give and receive? When did we forget that love freely given from our unique expression of self to someone fully receiving it is the most mutually healing experience of all?
This is a place of growth which Cancer can support us with. Discovering, through our emotional knowing, when it is true giving for us and when someone is actually receiving us. And with Cancer I’m being drawn to the mother archetype and a child receiving milk, a form of sustenance holy understood without pretense or confusion. Things get more convoluted as we get older with more memory layered within us and complex relational conditioning and expectations. But what if things were filtered through this level of simplicity?
Is my energy being received as holy sustenance? Am I needed here right now? Am I hindering someone else’s growth process through my giving? Is what I have to give actually aligned with this person or situation or might it be more fully received somewhere else? Am I recognizing what truly feels like a gift to my soul, those things which offer a level of sustenance and pleasure that I feel completely held and taken care of? Am I really honoring those people/places/things enough to have them continue flowing in my life? Am I overlooking things that are trying to offer this to me? Am I actively saying No when someone is giving to me in ways that are not aligned? Am I actively saying No when someone expects me to give in ways I am not comfortable with, resourced to do, or just don’t want to do?
Care is love. Love is care-taking our evolution physically, spiritually, emotionally, mentally. Love is recognizing our limits and the magic that happens when we let ourselves flow outside preconceived ideas of what “giving” and “receiving” looks like. When Love is present it is an embrace for all, an infinite receptive flow where distinction between giver and receiver falls away.
May this new moon help us all understand more clearly where our intuitive genius is guiding our flow of Care/Love and all the ways it infinitely returns to us that we may have yet to recognize.
xo
Evan
Co-Creative Astrology Update!
For those who haven’t seen, I have a few new offerings up on my website — The Archetypal Key session & The Illuminated Dreamer session. For those wanting a more intuitive and symbolic approach to the birth chart which includes bringing in oracle and tarot cards, I invite you to check out the Archetypal Key session! And for anyone who has interest in discovering deeper meaning behind your dreaming life, I am now offering sessions which incorporate dream work ✨
I’ve also been doing collective tarot readings up on youtube under the channel STARSTARoracle. I typically post a new pick a card reading each week which blend current transits with the questions I form for the readings in dialogue with the planets.
Thank you for your presence in my life through engaging with my writing here. It means a lot to get to share and be received in so many unique ways in this lifetime 🐚💓🌊
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